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> Let’s say I want to run something open-source in my AWS account; call it MySQL for this thought experiment. I can set up MySQL on an EC2 instance, or I can us
by vasco 4y ago
> Let’s say I want to run something open-source in my AWS account; call it MySQL for this thought experiment. I can set up MySQL on an EC2 instance, or I can use AWS’s own managed service (in this case, RDS) to do it for me. I’ll pay slightly more for RDS, but that’s fair; there’s value in having AWS’s operational expertise applied to running infrastructure for me.
The author acknowledges they know they are already paying a premium for the managed service. With that premium you are also paying for the traffic between instances. If the price was the same I'd see how this is anti-competitive but like this I don't understand the argument.
- simplotek 4y ago> With that premium you are also paying for the traffic between instances. No, you aren't. You're paying for the service following an arbitrary pricing model that bears no relationship with their business costs.
- imwillofficial 4y agoYou have no idea how that’s calculated.
- mixedCase 4y agoYou could've shortened that to: You're paying for the cloud integration and the management software* Most paid software has no relationship between its price and business costs. That's what makes software special from the business perspective.